Word: daniels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Held captive for 23 days in an apartment bedroom, John J. ("Butch") O'Connell, nephew of the politically powerful Brothers Edward and Daniel O'Connell of Albany, N. Y., was released unhurt on a street corner in The Bronx after his uncles had paid $40,000 ransom. The kid nappers, apparently unnerved by news of the death sentence of Walter McGee and by the nation-wide anti-crime movement, had speeded up negotiations at the eleventh hour, abandoning their demand for $75,000 when Daniel O'Connell insisted that $40,000 was all they would get. Aware...
Married. James H. Roper, engineer, eldest son of Secretary of Commerce Daniel Calhoun Roper; and Elizabeth May Armstrong, high school librarian of San Leandro, Calif.; in San Francisco. Few weeks ago police were sent to investigate Engineer Roper's presence in Libra rian Armstrong's home by Mrs. Evelyn Aylesworth, head of the Physics Department at Mills (Oakland Women's College). Mrs. Aylesworth said that she, not Librarian Armstrong, was Engineer Roper's No. 1 fiancee...
...kidnapping of the week. For four days the relatives of John J. ("Butch") O'Connell Jr. kept secret the fact that he had been abducted as he stepped out of his car in front of his Albany, N. Y. home one midnight. Potent relatives they are. Uncles Edward & Daniel are the unchallenged bosses of Albany, control New York's most potent upstate Democratic machine. "Butch," 24, onetime school footballer and a strapping lieutenant in the National Guard, was the hope & pride of the clan O'Connell. He had been in charge of beer distribution from the Hedrick...
Kidnapped for $250,000 ransom was John J. O'Connell Jr., 24, nephew of Albany County, N. Y., Democratic Bosses Edward J. and Daniel P, O'ConnelL...
Recurrently many a scholar looks back wistfully at the early days of Johns Hopkins University. It was housed in some plain Baltimore buildings which people thought resembled a piano factory. But its President Daniel Coit Gilman sloganed: "Men, not bricks and mortar." In the early 1880's Abraham Flexner was a student there, while Dr. Richard Theodore Ely was busy founding its chair of economic science. Largely out of Dr. Flexner's enthusiasm for the Johns Hopkins method came the Institute for Advanced Study he is building in Princeton (TIME, March 27et ante...